Hanger for picture-frames.



No. 821,159. PATENTED MAY 22, 1906. L. FELDMANN, JR. I

HANGER FOR PICTURE FRAMES.

APPLIOATION FILED 00123, 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 23, l905. Serial No. 284.092.

Patented May 22, 1906.

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Beit known that 1, Louis FELDMANN, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hangers for Picture-Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof. 1 5

My invention has relation to improvements in hangers for picture-frames; and it consists in the novel details of construction more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the top of a frame, showing my hanger or hook applied thereto in operative position. Fig. 2 is a similar view with hanger folded against the face of the frame. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a top plan of the hanger detached. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the same; and Fig. 7 is a top plan showing the several positions it may assume relatively to the frame, which is shown dotted.

The object of my invention is to provide picture-frames suspended on display-racks with hooks or hangers which may be folded against the face of the frame upon the removal of the frame from the rack, the folding of the hook permitting the frame to be deposited on any surface without danger of scratching said surface, or permitting'several frames to be laid on top of one another by the customer or dealer handling the same without the danger of scratching or otherwise marring the surface or finish on the frame, all as will more fully appear from a de tailed description of the invention, which is as follows:

Referring to the drawings, P represents a picture-frame to be exposed for sale on any suitable display-rack. The hook or hanger in the present instance is composed of one piece of wire and comprises a basal member 1, an intermediate member 2, deflected at right angles thereto, and a terminal prong or member 3, deflected at an acute angle to the member 2. The end of the member, 1 terminates in an eye a, which is looped or pivoted about a pin p, driven into the under surface of the end member of the frame P. The

members 2 3 are disposed in a plane which makes an obtuse angle with the member 1, Fig. 5, the purpose of said angular disposition being readily apparent. f

, Upon the pivoting of the hook to the frame as described the hook when swung to a position at right angles to the plane of the rear face of the upper member of the pictureframe brings the intermediate portion 2 in contact with the frame, said portion 2 thus arresting the oscillation of the hook inthat direction and insuring the retention of the parts 2 3 in a plane at right angles to the picture-frame. With the hook thus swung outwardly the picture may be suspended by the prong 3 from any suitable rack, and in practice I employ a rack composed of a sheet of burlap mounted. in a suitable frame. (Not shown.) Upon removal of a picture-frame from its rack the hook may be swung to one side until the parts 2 3 are folded snugly against the face of the frame, Figs. 2, 4, when the picture-frame can be deposited on any surface without danger of being scratched by the hook. The several positions which the hook may assume relatively to the frame are shown in Fig. 7, the full position corresponding to that shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and the dotted position on the right corresponding to the folded position of the hook, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, The intermediate position shows the portion 1 of the hook projecting slightly beyond the face of'the frame P. Thus the intermediate member 2 serves to arrest the outward oscillation of the hook, and the parts 2 3 jointly bear against the face of the picture-frame for the folded position of the hook, the obtuse angle between the member 1 and the plane of the members 2 3 permitting the simultaneous engagement or folding of the latter parts against the picture-frame for the purpose indicated. The hook oscil lates about the pivot 10 with the basal member 1 as a radius, and this radius for the extreme positions of the hook marks the limits of the arc described by the hook in oscillating from its suspending or operative position to its folded position. For the suspending position of the hook, as well as for its folded position, the member 1 is disposed at an acute angle to the plane of the rear face of the picture'frame, Fig. 7. Of course the right-angled deflection of the portion 2 from the portion l may be varied more or less according to the planeof disposition of the rear face of;

the picture-frame.

Having described. my inyention yvhatjl v l operative positlon of the hook, and the inclaim is- 1.- A hanger composedvof a basal ortionr adapted to oscillate about its free en anintermediate portion deflected therefrom at an angle thereto, and a terminal prong or member deflected outwardly from the;int.erIne-.v

diate portion, substantially as set forth;

2.,A hanger composed, of a singlepiece of Wireleng-th andcornpr singa basal portion or member adapted to. oscillate about itsfree end, an intermediateportion or member .dem;

flected therefrom atan angle thereto, and a termiIlEpl outwardly deflected prong the 7 prong: and. intermediate member ,lbeing dis-. posed in a plane making an obtuse angle with as $613, forth.

the, basal portion of the hook g substantially 3. In combination with a,

. me r, a ho c pris ng a. .asa imem pivotally secured along theunder surface of ali pper me f the fr ninter l ate membe tdefl te f om e ba a member at an angle thereto, and a terminaloutwardly-deflected prong at i the upper end of the intermediate member, said ,prong; and intermediatemember and prong ointly folding against the face of the frame for the folded position of the hook, the basal member of the latter being disposed at an acute angle to the .plane of the face engaged by the members of the hook, for the extreme positions of the hook, substantially asset forth.

4, As an article ofmanufacture, a hook t composed of ,a singlepiece of; wireandcomprising .a basal member terminatingtln an eye, an ntermediate .portion; deflected at rightangles, thereto and a third portion or ,prong deflected outwardly from thetintermediate portion, the basall member; making an obtuse angle to the-plane of disposition of the intermediate portion and/terminal prong, ctuleeframe substantially as set; forth.

in testimony whereof IaffiX mysignature in, pr e sence of two itnesses.

ALOUIS'VFELDMANN, JR.

1 v ll itnesses:

:EMIL STAREK, 1 HMARY D. WHITCOMBL 

